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In reply to the discussion: Borowitz: 'Stopping Trump is short term solution'' [View all]Cosmocat
(14,543 posts)45. SPOT ON!
My time frame is similar, I was a young adult in the 90s when the media started to sit on its hands and just allow republicans to say the most intellectually dishonest things you can imagine without challenging it. Unchecked they went got more and more bellicose until BHO got elected, and someone reached a new, super hysterical level of it.
We are here today because this country, the media in particular, have spent the last three decades indulging right wing stupidyt, and unchecked they have only gotten more and more worse over time.
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Yes, but Borowitz is talking to non-Trump conservatives about Trump supporters
Bernardo de La Paz
Mar 2016
#12
They've been talking and thinking that way for decades. They are basically a lost cause.
Bernardo de La Paz
Mar 2016
#41
Hmmmm.... I see what you are saying, but at the same time I know that the purposeful
GreenPartyVoter
Mar 2016
#53
Both are an issue. Too many parents think that an education only means getting good grades
Bernardo de La Paz
Mar 2016
#13
My point is that a controlled society will limit the kinds of education to what is
A Simple Game
Mar 2016
#52
The controllers could be like a tumor, benign or malignant. Lots of ways for them to
A Simple Game
Mar 2016
#57
When a group of educators gather in a room for a discussion, the first one to say
A Simple Game
Mar 2016
#34
Dude, I neither fired the first shot nor dissed your knowledge. Stop projecting.
merrily
Mar 2016
#44
I think you took my post wrong. I never fired a shot nor did I think you did.
A Simple Game
Mar 2016
#46
No problem, and I often have the "I know what I mean" thinking and don't explain things concisely.
A Simple Game
Mar 2016
#48